Underneath the modern Cairo suburb called Heliopolis lie the remains of one of the most important cities of ancient Egypt. That Heliopolis may be long buried, but its influence lives on and, perhaps more surprisingly, its future is bright.

Since at least the time of Homer and his epic account of the Trojan War, people have glorified warfare and reveled in it as entertainment.

Today’s debate between methods of attaining knowledge—one divinely revealed, the other gained by rational inquiry—is a significant aspect of Aristotle’s legacy.

Perhaps no written work has had more influence on the Christian belief that human beings possess an immortal soul than Dante’s monumental poem.

Modern cityscapes appear to have been built with the specific aim of serving the needs of our civilizations. But where does the idea of the city itself originate?

The Tower of Babel was built somewhere on the plain of Shinar, although the exact site of the tower has been much debated by scholars.

Is the story of the mystical phoenix just an ancient flight of fancy? Its rebirth through Christian writings suggests otherwise.

In the wake of the 2007–09 financial crisis, a number of economists and commentators have written books to try to establish why the crisis happened.